Connections Pre-K Sampler

8 C is for children’s stories L earning C enters Teachers love the learning centers! LearningCenters provide a place for students to extend their under- standing of new concepts and engage inmore independent work. Learning centers serve several purposes. They offer a natural place for small group activities. They provide a control point for the gradual release of responsibility to students and groups of students as they engage in increasingly independent work. They enable studentswith diverse learning styles to practice new skills inmultiple settings. Learning center activities are identified in the lesson plans by the icons shown below. Let’s Pretend. Activities involving acting out, pretend, and dress-up Art. Activities involving coloring, drawing, and gluing Music. Activities involving singing, rhyming, dancing, and finger plays Science. Activities involving observing, collecting, andmeasuring ABC. Activities involving phonological awareness andword recognition Writing. Activities involving tracing andwriting numbers or words Game. Engaging activities involving counting, sorting, and comparing